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CHAPTER VII

PHYSIOLOGY


Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Jesus.

He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. — Psalms.


PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from “the tree of knowledge.” Evil declared that eating this fruit would open man's eyes and make him as a god. Instead of so doing, it closed the eyes of mortals to man's God-given dominion over the earth.

To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the brain and strength by the exercise of muscle, is to Man not structural subjugate intelligence, to make mind mortal, and to place this so-called mind at the mercy of material organization and non-intelligent matter.

Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since man-made material theories took the place of spiritual truth.

You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause Causes of sickness distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then causes of you consult your brain in order to remember sickness what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in forgetting

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